May 2017 NPD Thread! PS4 #1

[DonFerrari]

pokoko said:
It's a shame we can't get an accurate picture of the Switch's ceiling. When something goes out of stock, trying to project how much it would have sold without supply problems is impossible. We can't assume it would or would not outsell the PS4. We don't even know if scarcity is helping to drive interest or not.

I hope they get this sorted soon, though I doubt it. Otherwise, we'll just get more arguments based on assumptions from both sides.

Well, we can always make crazy suppositions that if there was 10M consoles available in May they would sell all that 10M.

Nautilus said:

DonFerrari said:

Yes, if the company isn't confident in their product or if they don't read the market right it's their fault.

Sony is still facing supply issues on PS4Pro and they admitted they mispredicted it. That is their sole fault.

As I said, it is their fault, but I personally cant blame them after the disaster they had with the Wii U.Betwenn under and overproducing, from a bussiness point of view its better to be safe than sorry.

Same with the PS4 at their launch.Cant blame them making less hardware than the actual demand was after the financial disaster that the PS3 was.

I understand now. I was thinking you weren't even seeing they at fault.

I still blame they on not making their analysis of the market in a better way, being marginally underproduced is ok and makes sense, being severely constrained may bit they in the back.